If you are running Windows Server or a Professional edition of Windows, you can do this using Group Policy. The scripts will be run as the user who is logging on, whoever that may be, with their respective permissions. They will not be tied to a specific user.
Save your batch scripts in C:\Windo...

Like most kids, my kids love computers, and if I let them, they'd camp out on it every waking hour Facebooking and playing video games. So we have an app that limits their time each day (trying to introduce balance into their lives).
However, homework needs to be done on the computer, and it sho...

@Boris_yo I did not know , so adobee CC stuff is all going subscrition? They say subscription style is money in the bank for most programs, because outright purchaces of say $200-300 people will hold that software for 5-10 years, but a subscription at $100 a year , brings the company 500-1000. just depends on use. I have a huge problem with paying a yearly fee and using a program say once or twice total the whole year, feels like i am paying $50 to use a program for 10 minutes. Whhhhaaaa

But i do not have a problem, paying full price for a program i can use "forever" even if it is obsoleted , in less than 5 years :-(

Eventually they will have programs that you pay $1 minute to have the opertunity to operate , 100$ to figure out what your doing, and 10$ to do it ;0

@tereško great place to start, california the lawsuit capitol of the world. first person who runs into a robocar, is going to create a law against them. If they would wait untill the robocars can fully fufill the role, they wont destroy the whoe thing. Instead it will be like evey bomb ever made, they will drop it the first chance they get :-0

@tereško the cars got run into? or did you miss that part? nobody ran into me, nor did i run into anyone else, yet a computer did ? If they are not ready to be as capable as "good human drivers" they will just be more idiot drivers , and the whole idea will be rejected in short. if they would wait on trying to push it into place, and instead retain the exerimental aspect they would have a chancs.

@tereško not even, most of the cars have had manuel override capability for every incident a computer could cause, and when they didnt , there goes the recall and the lawsuits again, destroying the chances for them.

Drive by wire, DbW, by-wire, Steer-by-wire, or x-by-wire technology in the automotive industry is the use of electrical or electro-mechanical systems for performing vehicle functions traditionally achieved by mechanical linkages. This technology replaces the traditional mechanical control systems with electronic control systems using electromechanical actuators and human-machine interfaces such as pedal and steering feel emulators. Components such as the steering column, intermediate shafts, pumps, hoses, belts, coolers and vacuum servos and master cylinders are eliminated from the vehicle. This...

According to balpha, the SE chat sites may have individual Easter eggs, depending on the site. If you find them, please post.
Edit:
Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop ain't that hard either...)

Send a message matching the regex /(?:^|[.!?:]\s+)(?:(?:how\s+(?:can|do)\s+i)\s+([^?!.:]+)\?|(?:i(?:\s+want|(?:\s‌​+am|'m)\s+(?:wanting|trying)|'d\s+like|\s+would\s+like)\s+to\s+([^?!.:]+)(?:$|\.|‌​!)))/i to start an animation of a "helpful" anthropomorphic paperclip. Some other "how" questions will also work. (Yes, it's kinda crazy, but that's what balpha says the official regex is.)

by deduction, anything you say that does not match the regex /(?:^|[.!?:]\s+)(?:(?:how\s+(?:can|do)\s+i)\s+([^?!.:]+)\?|(?:i(?:\s+want|(?:\s‌​‌​+am|'m)\s+(?:wanting|trying)|'d\s+like|\s+would\s+like)\s+to\s+([^?!.:]+)(?:$|\‌​.|‌​!)))/i will not trigger Clippy

@Bob XFS is a very old filesystem developed by SGI then donated to Linux, but it's been significantly overhauled and improved in the last 5-6 years by Red Hat... its goals are consistent performance across all workloads (minimizing "worst case" performance), and reliability

my beef with ext4 is not its performance, but that it randomly eats your data; it has a terrible reputation for losing data, long after it was declared "stable"

also, ext4 has some weird worst-case performance problems where certain types of I/O bottleneck hard on the FS driver, whereas XFS doesn't have that

ZFS: awesome performance, but wants to use a large amount of memory; top-notch reliability; better software RAID than any other implementation; unfortunately has a "layering violation" in its design, in that it goes far beyond what a normal "filesystem" does, by effectively taking over the block layer responsibility (though it can awkwardly work on top of other block layers like LVM2)

XFS: excellent reliability, well-rounded performance, great scalability, but relies on the block layer to do software RAID, etc. -- much more reliable than ext4 though

ext4: amazing performance on the "most common" workloads, but not as scalable or reliable as XFS, and relies on block layer to do software RAID

btrfs: has layering violations just like ZFS where it can do software RAID (though not as well as ZFS), and has many performance problems that no other filesystem has; it's also the least proven filesystem of the bunch, so even if it turns out to be reliable, that's basically luck at this point.

I think the folks working on btrfs want it to be a GPLv2-licensed equivalent of ZFS, with near feature parity. The problem with ZFS is that the only good implementation is licensed under CDDL (because it's a straight port from the Solaris kernel onto the Linux kernel), so it can't be incorporated into the Linux kernel source.

But ZFS has been worked on for way more man-hours than btrfs, so it has a lot more features. Maybe in 2020 btrfs might be a viable replacement for ZFS.

Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC) is a page replacement algorithm with better performance than LRU (Least Recently Used) developed at the IBM Almaden Research Center. This is accomplished by keeping track of both Frequently Used and Recently Used pages plus a recent eviction history for both. In 2006, IBM was granted a patent for the adaptive replacement cache policy.
== Summary ==
Basic LRU maintains an ordered list (the cache directory) of resource entries in the cache, with the sort order based on the time of most recent access. New entries are added at the top of the list, after the bottom entry...

I was looking at the new APIs introduced in Android 4.2. While looking at the UserManager class I came across the following method:
public boolean isUserAGoat ()
Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to
teleportations.
Returns whether the user making this ...

Although I don't believe in putting irrelevant jokes in software, programming is an insanely tiring job and there is a very real need to play a joke once in a while.

I've been there as a student.

When software development is your day job, everything changes.

It may be a non-issue for a hobbyist or even for a student, but I can't imagine how hard it to stay motivated and energized without giving yourself a distraction, such as by writing a piece of humorous code, once in a while.

I'm a bit of a jester so the idea of an easter egg still appeals to me. I have added them in my code before but my group of friends has a running joke of using CTRL-FU to trigger the egg.
Now I'm also a bit paranoid about performance so I like removing excess whenever possible. This heavily cont...